According to John Koller, Sony’s Director of Hardware Marketing, the company has made the PSP Go battery non-replaceable in an effort to prevent piracy that has plagued earlier models, most notably the 1000 and 2000 models.
Using the infamous Pandora’s Battery, users of past PSP models could easily modify official PSP firmware and therefore play pirated games at their leisure. Sony wanted to avoid the same with the Go.
“We’ve had a lot of success with the 3000,” Koller added via PSInsider. “You won’t be able to rip your games and play them on the system, the firmware precludes that. There’s no external battery, so there’s a number of protections put into place on the system.”
The downside for consumers is the fact that if the battery ever begins to die out, you cannot simply replace it, you will have to send it into Sony to have it replaced.
Result for: replaceable
According to Bloomberg, the class action lawsuit filed last year over the iPhone battery has been thrown out.
The suit was started by an angry iPhone owner by the name of Jose Trujillo and claimed that Apple was misleading customers by not informing them that the iPhone battery was not user-replaceable and that battery would only last a little over a year. A replacement from Apple costs $86 USD.
U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly has thrown out the case however and added, “Apple disclosed on the outside of the iPhone package that the” battery has “‘limited recharge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced by Apple service provide,…Under the circumstances, no reasonable jury could find that deception occurred.”
AT&T, also named in the suit, may not be so lucky however, as they attempted to force the matter into arbitration as per their service terms. The judge said however that Trujillo did not have paper copies of the TOS when he bought the phone and scheduled a hearing for September 29th.
